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- Andersson, Eva, 1971-, et al.
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Ethnic segregation and performance inequality in the Swedish school system : a regional perspective
- 2010
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Ingår i: Environment and planning A. - : SAGE Publications. - 0308-518X .- 1472-3409. ; 42:11, s. 2674-2686
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is today an immigrant country with more than 14% foreign born. An increasing share of the immigrants comes from non-European countries. This implies that Sweden has been transformed from an ethnically homogenous country into a country with a large visible minority. In this paper we survey the effect of this change on school segregation. Building on Schelling's model for residential segregation, we argue that establishment of a visible minority has triggered a process of school segregation that in some respects can be compared with the developments in the United States. In order to test the validity of a Schelling-type process in Swedish schools we compare segregation levels in regions with different shares of visible minority students.We use data from the PISA 2003 survey in combination with register data on the ethnic composition of student population in different parts of Sweden. We find that school segregation is higher in regions with a large visible-minority population.We also find that, controlling for student background, there are smaller differences in performance across schools in regions with low shares of minority students.
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- Jokinen, Johanna C., 1981-, et al.
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Rural roots in the urban landscape : The urban spatial organization of rural-to-urban migrants in Bolivia
- 2013
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Rapid process of urbanization has been leading the direction of Latin American development over decades. However, the pattern of urbanization has been changing over the recent years, which can be seen as increasing rural-urban connections and growing importance of small towns and intermediate cities. This has also resulted in livelihood diversification in rural and peri-urban sites, which might include off-farm income generating activities and temporal labor migration. Over the last decades, an increasing flow of rural-to-urban immigrants have transformed the urban as well as rural landscapes in Bolivia. The aim of this study is to identify national and transnational migration patterns in the Bolivian case study and to understand links between changing migration flows and structure of urban space. Using a unique database containing records of thousands of migrations from rural areas to the major city of Cochabamba, we are able to analyze to what extent socio-economic backgrounds, earlier residence locations, ethnic belongings, and previous migration experiences determines type and location of residence areas chosen by migrants.
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- Niedomysl, Thomas, et al.
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The Globalisation of Marriage Fields: the Swedish Case
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. - London : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-183X .- 1469-9451. ; 36:7, s. 1119-1138
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Marriage fields - the geographical areas where people meet to partner - traditionally tend to be relatively small and local. Increasing international travel and the use of the internet have broadened the geographical opportunity structure of potential partners. This increases the chances of meeting a partner from abroad, possibly resulting in a rise in international marriage migration. This paper uses unique longitudinal population data for the whole of Sweden to explore the globalisation of Swedish marriage fields. The results show an increase of ‘marriage migrants’ in Sweden between 1990 and 2004, although absolute numbers remain relatively low. The paper yields two new insights not previously recorded in the literature. First, we found a substantial proportion of all marriage migrants in Sweden to be males, while most existing literature on marriage migration focuses almost exclusively on females. Second, the pattern of geographical origins of marriage migrants is highly gendered, with male and female marriage migrants in Sweden originating from different regions in the world. This suggests that different mechanisms underlie male and female marriage migration.
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- Olofsson, Jonas, 1965-, et al.
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Förtidspensionering av unga : en fråga om utsortering efter utbildningsnivå och socioekonomisk bakgrund?
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Syftet med rapporten är att diskutera och analysera förekomsten av förtidspension och aktivitetsersättning bland unga och unga vuxna i Sverige.1 Utvecklingen i Sverige speglas utifrån ett internationellt perspektiv. En övergripande fråga i rapporten är om de senaste årens ökning av antalet unga med aktivitetsersättning kan relateras till socioekonomiska bakgrundsfaktorer och förhållanden på arbetsmarknaden.
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- Wimark, Thomas, et al.
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The City as a Single Gay Male Magnet? : The City as a Single Gay Male Magnet? Gay and Lesbian Geographical Concentration in Sweden
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Ingår i: Population, Space and Place. - : Wiley. - 1544-8444 .- 1544-8452. ; 20:8, s. 739-752
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the last two decades, an increasing number of studies on the geographies of gay and lesbian couples have been carried out, stressing the urban significance, tolerance, and amenities. In this study, it is argued that former studies have only mapped a fraction of the gay and lesbian population, that is, the couples, and present a new method for retrieving information from the Internet to map gay and lesbian singles and couples. The findings indicate that there is a significant difference between gay and lesbian singles and couples and that the urban significance is much stronger for singles than for couples. In the conclusion, it is suggested that a life course perspective could explain this where gay and lesbian singles tend to concentrate in cities, but when they have found a partner and decide to move together, the city is less important. Finally, a recommendation reconsidering partnership data is made as it can be problematical to generalise such data for a gay and lesbian population.
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- Åslund, Olof, et al.
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How important is access to jobs? : Old question—improved answer
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Ingår i: Journal of Economic Geography. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1468-2702 .- 1468-2710. ; 10:3, s. 389-422
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- We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to obtain exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having been placed in a location with poor job access in 1990–1991 adversely affected employment in 1999. Doubling the number of jobs in the initial location in 1990–1991 is associated with 2.9 percentage points higher employment probability in 1999. Considering that the 1999 employment rate was 43% among the refugees, this is a considerable effect. The analysis suggests that residential sorting leads to underestimation of the impact of job access.
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